Springfield daily republic. [volume] (Springfield, O. [Ohio]) 1887-1888, 1887-12-10

ming like Q bee hive The basement was
tlled with strangers, and the restaurants
were doing q thriving business The second
Aoor had many of the aspects of Partisan
boulevard Pretty women and great men
jostled each other in the corridors, and big
crowds hung about the doors of the galleries
of the house and senate. The wooden men
who act as doorkeepers and messengers came
out, Is usual on such days. in all their glory.
They domineered over the crowd. They
showed hack this woman. and pushed that
man awny. They put on three times as many
airs as the senator's themselves. and their
dignity far surpassed that of the supreme
Judges on the bench. The galleries inside
looked like SO many flower gardens, and the
prince Of Babylon would have been glad to
have had such hanging bouquets on the out
side Of his famous palace. The colored citi-
IN was out in all his glory, and. phoenix
like, the Capitol arose in a night from the
dull ashes Of the recess into the hveliest
activity Of one OF the liveliest sessions in our
history.
Speaker Carlisle called the house to order.
and he makes q most satisfactory presiding
0mcer. His contest with Thoebe amounted
% DoehinG, and he is to be the leader of the
Democratic house this year, as he was last
Many new faces were seen in the house to
day, and many were the reminders Of the
political hea6is that lave been cut of About
% per cent OF the last congress is absent
and $50 members have been retired Frank
Hiscocks ma jsstic form. tightly buttoned in
III black Prince Albert coat, is seen no more
among the Republicans, and his dark, hand
some face vii. now be reserved for the sena-
torial gallery ga.ers. Daniel. of Virginia,
with his crutch and his refined features, has
also gone up higher; and good, kind hearted,
tnterstate commerce Reagan will hereafter
wear out the cushions of the senate instead
q the hard chairs Of the house. One of the
mot notable absences is that Of John T.
wa1k, Of Connecticut, who was the oldest
nsmbsr oe the last house, and who had a
face strikingly like that Of Gen. George
Washington.
Then, Ranney, Of Massachusetts,, the noted
lawyer member, who conducted the Pan
Electric telephone investigation, has gone
hack 70 his law practice in Massachusetts,.
where be will make SlO0, 600 year: and as
for Rice, Of Massachusetts,, and Green, of
New Jsssey, they too are among the absent.
We will not have Andrew G. Curtin in
this congress; and the dark, beautiful face of
Ben Lefevre, Of Ohio. will be admired in
othr quarters. Judge Geddes, another noted
Ohio member, will not be present; and Hen
nepin Murphy, whose mission in life WAS TO
put through the Hennepin canal, will not be
here.
Many Of the southern members are not
pressnt, and the most missed man is Ran
dolph Tucker, whose kind manner and ster-
hing worth will be remembered long after he
b put under the sod He will practice law
both In Washington and in Virginia, and
will be . richer man out Of congress than
In it
The new members feel lost, and everything
they see looks big TO them The chestnut
stnsy Of Senator Nesbitt, of Oregon, is going
The rounds among them, and they are recall
ING how Nesbitt said when he first came 10
eoogre<:
Il was surprised at the ability of the men
I met, and as I took my seat among the
Statesmen I looked around ON that magnifi-
cent body Of men and wondered how in the
HI l ever got there among them About
two weeks later. when the strangeness had
worn o6. again looked around on that mag
nincent body Of men and again wondered;
bat, this time. il was how in the h-n the
other fellows got there"
Coogressmen are. in fact, very much like
other men, and the average of human great
neS is not very much higher than Gods
most ordinary creation 1t is the same in
tellectually as it is physically. No one man
b twice as tall as any other ordinary man,
and none of these congressman know much
more than the average reader of this article
They Strut around here in their store clothes
and lead me 10 wonder:
Snow, in the name Of all the gods at once,
upon what meat do these our C;esars feed.
that they are grown so great
Many of them forget that they were all raw
red babies once. and they will certainly all be
corpses by and hy Their political lives will
be shorter than their physical ones. and fully
one-third Of each congress is not returned
You may walk about Washington today,
and you viii meet on every corner a man
who. year or so ago, carried his head high
in political life. but who now has no political
head TO sJpeak Of You NAV see Secretary of